The erasure of acts from hip-hop’s earliest era -- and the stigma of “old-school hip-hop†as a blanket term -- has hurt hip-hop’s canonization.

This list celebrates classic hip-hop records on either side of the Millennium divide that didn't get the attention they… ...

In honor of Power Players week, Billboard's Hip-Hop team celebrates the legendary hip-hop labels that molded the superstars ...

And the south had become a major influence in hip-hop, with OutKast and Juvenile releasing two hip-hop classics in Aquemini and 400 Degreez, respectively.

The topic of classic hip-hop albums is among the quintessential barbershop conversations that has transcended from shop chairs to social media platforms. And of course, no one LP is at the helm of ...

Wild Style is arguably the very first movie and one of the very few that shows the true essence of what Hip Hop is about. When Hip-Hop was being passed off as a fad that wouldn’t last beyond ...

D’Vonne Lewis, center left on drums, and RL Heyer, center right on guitar, often perform during the jazz-meets-hip-hop nights Belltown's Provisions bar puts on every Wednesday. On the far left ...

Perhaps more than any other style of music, hip-hop songs are best to dance to. In fact, when hip-hop was invented, there were five tenets to the art form, from lyricism to DJing to dancing. So ...

The "classic album" is one of the most pervasive arguing points when it comes to hip-hop debates. Being that hip-hop is a musical genre tied closely to a cultural movement, the impact of released ...

The show largely keeps the classic Tchaikovsky score, though adds elements of hip hop music, including an on-stage DJ and electric violinist.

Wild Style is widely regarded as the first film to authentically capture the true essence of Hip-Hop. At a time when the culture was dismissed as a passing fad following the success of “Rapper ...